Earthworks: President Obama should know this. His own agencies are effectively telling him so.
NOAA studies based on actual measurements of methane emissions from natural gas development, transport and consumption, report that the methane leakage rate is much higher than commonly assumed. Its so high, in fact, that natural gas--from gas well to consumption--is more harmful to climate than coal because methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
And the Presidents Climate Action...